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"unwound" poems
We finally unwound After hours in my bed A thin film of your ego peeled off and clung to my skin Asymptomatic…I wish You spread through me like a wildfire That burns with every breath.
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Feb 12, 2013
Feb 12, 2013 at 12:28 PM UTC
STD
The cricket's  rhythmic chivalry slows to Autumn's droning crawl like an unwound eight-day clock unconsciously neglected by time The Sounds of summer that fall silent are never really noticed until gone things we often take for granite, a mistake rendering life benign Dreams living only in our minds beheld within, the love that keeps us alive never caring, never needing to know, "fifty ways to leave your lover" behind So many miles spinning faster, so much weight to weigh you down it never really was a simpler time just a window with a different view Fleeting time may shine like shooting star an irreverent kind of blinding light come to pass a different hue of colours cast and sown an  eerie silence may befall unprovoked As if you found an urgent message in a bottle drifting through your tides you can spend the rest a lifetime trying to catch lightening in that bottle thence Don't look away from a moment       too long ... in the blink of an eye              it'll all be gone someone you used to know ... September 16, 2017
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Sep 16, 2017
Sep 16, 2017 at 1:56 PM UTC
Message Adrift in a Bottle
My neck noosed My legs loosed I witness the tragic It seems so emphatic I feel entropy Enter me Centering Around love and pain I wear gloves of shame Toxicity taints touch My reaction is to cautiously recoil For I feel a great punch When I expect them to be loyal A tear rolls down my cheek Navigating scars Like a man who is meek Navigating bars It starts and stops Then keeps going The tears drop From what I'm knowing That my time is evaporating Dealing with the exasperating I feel I can be caring I just need the chance We'll see how I'm fairing On the end of your lance Penetrating deeply The pain is unceasing Like a thousand bee stings While you stand there feasting Making me feel alive From the pain inside I guess things could always be worse Sometimes that feels like a curse Because I have problems all the same But it's true The sum of our troubles equal this game That we lose Even though I'd rather deal with *** and silence Than to be vexed by violence They're all just ways of imposing our will Whether it's through who we birth or **** Conflict is how we get our fill Every day a different fire drill We hate each other We date each other We underrate each other To deflate each other Pain is used as a tool Until blood lays in a pool These things that annoy us Are met by avoidance These things compound Until I can't be unwound I live in a world of contending intentions It's a world of our own selfish invention A world that burns bright So I can't sleep When day turns to night I hear death creep Seeking to take me from a life I never asked for But I'm grateful to have Life is about experimenting with opening doors And I'm stuck in the lab
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Feb 18, 2018
Feb 18, 2018 at 9:22 PM UTC
Conflict
My neck noosed My legs loosed I witness the tragic It seems so emphatic I feel entropy Enter me Centering Around love and pain I wear gloves of shame Toxicity taints touch My reaction is to cautiously recoil For I feel a great punch When I expect them to be loyal A tear rolls down my cheek Navigating scars Like a man who is meek Navigating bars It starts and stops Then keeps going The tears drop From what I'm knowing That my time is evaporating Dealing with the exasperating I feel I can be caring I just need the chance We'll see how I'm fairing On the end of your lance Penetrating deeply The pain is unceasing Like a thousand bee stings While you stand there feasting Making me feel alive From the pain inside I guess things could always be worse Sometimes that feels like a curse Because I have problems all the same But it's true The sum of our troubles equal this game That we lose Even though I'd rather deal with *** and silence Than to be vexed by violence They're all just ways of imposing our will Whether it's through who we birth or **** Conflict is how we get our fill Every day a different fire drill We hate each other We date each other We underrate each other To deflate each other Pain is used as a tool Until blood lays in a pool These things that annoy us Are met by avoidance These things compound Until I can't be unwound I live in a world of contending intentions It's a world of our own selfish invention A world that burns bright So I can't sleep When day turns to night I hear death creep Seeking to take me from a life I never asked for But I'm grateful to have Life is about experimenting with opening doors And I'm stuck in the lab
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Where did the shyness go? I remember hiding under women's skirts red faced counting freckles staring as the universe unwound gazing at the birth of stars and the aura left. now I stare down.
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Jul 4, 2014
Jul 4, 2014 at 11:53 PM UTC
where did the shyness go?
I stand here Open, with every thread of security within me unwound The bitter words upon my tongue have been swallowed Rendering a vacant mouth dry With all the world ready to spill from me With every tear contained within I gaze at you in silence (So is that alright? Take it from me, rip it from my feeble fingers Don't steal it, don't take it for yourself You've "lived a charmed life," haven't you? Don't lie to me, don't uproot the little truth that I seem to know Skirt chaser, ******* womanizer Great to know that I was only points to score in the game you play So is that alright?)
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Aug 9, 2010
Aug 9, 2010 at 5:36 PM UTC
Agape
one strike of that blackened match and a million chromatic threads unwound leaving only an ashen husk, my timeless vessel
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Jan 24, 2023
Jan 24, 2023 at 10:49 AM UTC
appel du vide
The 7 wonders of the world Is quite a sight to see But it don't compare to what we have In the hills of Tennessee Uncle Zebs cow is a big ole thing Quite a sight to behold That cow's so big that when they milk her Her udders even have to unfold Cousin Zeke has a six-legged mule And man that thing is fast One time he raced a bobcat And the bobcat finished last My granny's teeth are made of wood Of course, they were bought from a store But ever since that termite season She don't use them much no more Aunt Imojean has a twine collection That she started when she was three I guess if we unwound that thing It'd reach clear 'cross Tennessee Cousin Jake has a rattlesnake He pickled and stuffed in a jar He caught that thing a year ago Trying to run off with his car Uncle Randolph has this chicken Who howls and barks at the moon That poor chicken is so dadgum old That she has to be fed with a spoon Uncle Sam has the seventh wonder An invisible moonshine still We ain't seen it since he made it But it's somewhere on that hill So, after you think you've seen it all You haven't seen anything yet Come to the hills of Tennessee And see things you'll never forget
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Oct 8, 2010
Oct 8, 2010 at 9:07 PM UTC
Hillbilly 7 Wonders
*The box remained shut. His fingers probe but with invisible eyes. Finding the clasp that had forgotten the last time. With the lid pried open, the dancer would soon arise. ••••• As expected, she rose... Accompanied by a tune, truly a haunting sound. She slid and pirouetted. She fulfilled the promise to which she was bound. Her routine was well rehearsed. She embodied the music, as it carried her. It mattered not if it was for a single audience. She cared not if there was no other. She performed like she might never again, she inhaled the moment like it was her last. She sung the song silent like she always would, she embraced her dance like sail unto mast. Then the melody slowed, as the tension in the spring played itself unwound. This day for her, had drawn to a close... But renewed hope for a new one is found. ••••• He hesitated before resting the lid upon its case. He caressed his dancer as his eyes start to smart. His ears would yearn for the song in his head... He would surely miss the dancer in his heart. But he knows when days grow dark and filled with strife. The music box lies ready... And his dancer will again come to life.*
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Jan 2, 2017
Jan 2, 2017 at 8:38 AM UTC
Dancer
. 1 In the corner stands My blue guitar, Mirrors my grimace. 2 I have played you So like dream was the dear song Where you playing me? 3 Your body makes mine Shudder as I imagine A woman in my arms. 4 At the top of your body Are keys unwound at the ready, Silver spirals of tunings. 5 My soul is near hollow But the blue guitar Is filling in the foundations. 6 What makes the blue guitar So shining in the mundane, All the world is makeshift. 7 My fingers wet with you, What water sounds like, As it kisses the earth. 8 Deep in the strings I summon my being, Always blue as sheer sky. 9 Blue guitar, silent, singing, My fingers ***** your neck, Never do you scream. 10 Once I heard music, The sweetest tabulations Of sorrows in rosewood. 11 My fingers ache on steel, These are your moved guts, Strings that I borrow. 12 At an open window, All the day obtuse, I hear birds in your vibrations, Untouched air of blue guitar. 13 I do not know anything, Music is lathed on an open fret, The heart is beating to a note of bliss, Hole set in the body braced by wood, Time cuts as it is sectioned, a staff fires, All the chords are listed in primes, Is the ear a window or is the eye, Blind in the choral songs we make, All things are ephemeral, wonderings, Variations we work as structure fades, As the blue guitar is touched, turning light.
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Sep 27, 2015
Sep 27, 2015 at 9:37 PM UTC
Thirteen Thoughts on the Blue Guitar
. 1 In the corner stands My blue guitar, Mirrors my grimace. 2 I have played you So like dream was the dear song Where you playing me? 3 Your body makes mine Shudder as I imagine A woman in my arms. 4 At the top of your body Are keys unwound at the ready, Silver spirals of tunings. 5 My soul is near hollow But the blue guitar Is filling in the foundations. 6 What makes the blue guitar So shining in the mundane, All the world is makeshift. 7 My fingers wet with you, What water sounds like, As it kisses the earth. 8 Deep in the strings I summon my being, Always blue as sheer sky. 9 Blue guitar, silent, singing, My fingers ***** your neck, Never do you scream. 10 Once I heard music, The sweetest tabulations Of sorrows in rosewood. 11 My fingers ache on steel, These are your moved guts, Strings that I borrow. 12 At an open window, All the day obtuse, I hear birds in your vibrations, Untouched air of blue guitar. 13 I do not know anything, Music is lathed on an open fret, The heart is beating to a note of bliss, Hole set in the body braced by wood, Time cuts as it is sectioned, a staff fires, All the chords are listed in primes, Is the ear a window or is the eye, Blind in the choral songs we make, All things are ephemeral, wonderings, Variations we work as structure fades, As the blue guitar is touched, turning light.
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May 5, 2015
May 5, 2015 at 5:23 PM UTC
Thirteen Thoughts on the Blue Guitar
Amazon tribes looked through forested twine to catch me with sharp sea creature needles streaming through air currents to soak into my behind and they brought me back to be one of their people gold leopard spreads paw fingers to scratch the earth and green twisted vine latches rock to wood I have danced with fish among the surf in mountainous shadows have I stood weather so damp you breathe inside out feet have become greedy eyes drinking the ground salty skin seems to constantly pout I am technically captive but feeling unwound.
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Dec 1, 2014
Dec 1, 2014 at 10:28 PM UTC
Captivatingly unwound
The drifter in the room is a stranger, he is crazy, is Bigfoot with deer moccasins on− monster of condominium rooms and dreams. The drifter in this room used to be my friend. He spoke straight sentences, they did not sound like poetry- reverberated like a narrative, special lines good a few bad, or stories being unwound by the tongue of a gentleman, lip service, juggler of simple words to children. The night is a dark believer in drifters, they sound sober, affairs with the wind, the 3 A.M. honking of the Metro trains. Everything sleeps with a love, a nightmare at night. The drifter.
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Jan 29, 2016
Jan 29, 2016 at 7:38 AM UTC
The Drifter, by Michael Lee Johnson, Itasca, IL
I. Apply foundation in a tone more perfect than the one you're born with, doubt that there's anything beautiful in the term "natural" blot your lips with the cherries you deprive yourself of and wonder, "What good is difference when it's not appreciated?" stop reading this. II. Forget how you were born; every freckle, every beauty mark, every uneven line etched into your face are nothing to be celebrated. Deprecate yourself, you are unwound and beg this world to shape you in its eyes. skip this line. Society speaks subjectively of happiness, but fill your head with lies that we're all pretty if we can keep up our disguise. The weight of this world upon your shoulders, alludes to being big as too much to handle. Curl into everyone's palm as if you're so fragile, they have to pinch the skin on your bones with the thumb and index finger. stop. III. Draw on the perfectly plump pout, filled with nothing but expectations of everyone else. Your beauty is not a privilege for anyone, but judgment that has defined your worth. skip. Emprises that market upon your insecurities, admire that solemn face in the mirror as the reflection discourages you at the acknowledgement of any impurities Start. How To Be Beautiful Lifelong Admire the history that lives within the heartlines of your palms, how strong you've grown, once cradled in your mother's arms. Disregard where it is you've come from, but how much further you've journeyed forward. I. Apply the sincerity in your best friend's voice when                         she calls the time you've spent together, beautiful. Do not doubt the splendor that comes from wisdom. II. Every wrinkle you've earned, as time gives back to you from lessons learned. Blot your lips during the release of laughter as saliva mists through the air, your joy so vigorous the ghosts residing in the graves regret no more. You are as you should be, a composite of everything that gives you life and grants you purpose. Begging for this world to love you, there is no fault in this desire. They speak of happiness as if it's only a potential-oriented concept, Do not let your heart surround the gossip or it's golden armor become bronzed. III. Draw on the canvas of existence in the brightest of hues, in the purest of love. Filled with nothing, but expecations for yourself say farewell to the darkness open the curtains to light. Your beauty is magnificent as your name will be transcendent. In each day we decide to be ourselves, the poise presents itself. —V.H.
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Sep 5, 2018
Sep 5, 2018 at 11:15 AM UTC
How To Be Beautiful In The 21st Century
I. Apply foundation in a tone more perfect than the one you're born with, doubt that there's anything beautiful in the term "natural" blot your lips with the cherries you deprive yourself of and wonder, "What good is difference when it's not appreciated?" stop reading this. II. Forget how you were born; every freckle, every beauty mark, every uneven line etched into your face are nothing to be celebrated. Deprecate yourself, you are unwound and beg this world to shape you in its eyes. skip this line. Society speaks subjectively of happiness, but fill your head with lies that we're all pretty if we can keep up our disguise. The weight of this world upon your shoulders, alludes to being big as too much to handle. Curl into everyone's palm as if you're so fragile, they have to pinch the skin on your bones with the thumb and index finger. stop. III. Draw on the perfectly plump pout, filled with nothing but expectations of everyone else. Your beauty is not a privilege for anyone, but judgment that has defined your worth. skip. Emprises that market upon your insecurities, admire that solemn face in the mirror as the reflection discourages you at the acknowledgement of any impurities Start. How To Be Beautiful Lifelong Admire the history that lives within the heartlines of your palms, how strong you've grown, once cradled in your mother's arms. Disregard where it is you've come from, but how much further you've journeyed forward. I. Apply the sincerity in your best friend's voice when                         she calls the time you've spent together, beautiful. Do not doubt the splendor that comes from wisdom. II. Every wrinkle you've earned, as time gives back to you from lessons learned. Blot your lips during the release of laughter as saliva mists through the air, your joy so vigorous the ghosts residing in the graves regret no more. You are as you should be, a composite of everything that gives you life and grants you purpose. Begging for this world to love you, there is no fault in this desire. They speak of happiness as if it's only a potential-oriented concept, Do not let your heart surround the gossip or it's golden armor become bronzed. III. Draw on the canvas of existence in the brightest of hues, in the purest of love. Filled with nothing, but expecations for yourself say farewell to the darkness open the curtains to light. Your beauty is magnificent as your name will be transcendent. In each day we decide to be ourselves, the poise presents itself. —V.H.
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Summer’s time has come and gone The walls, floorboards release a yawn With nine months then to recoup, recover From being a home, just for the summer. Eloquent memories freshly remain Of friends who nestled within her frame A cabin of bunk beds, cubbies, fresh air Where girls unwound with little a care. Her crevice now holds a left-behind letter Whose parchment hardens with winter’s weather Yet the season’s sleet knows the warmer reflection Of late night secrets and encouraged imperfection. Spring has sprung most slowly for some The evergreens exclaim a harmonious hum Her wooden steps defrost, and patiently await The coming of campers to the cardinal state. Fall, winter, and spring all pass Warm rays have woken the mountains at last Each cabin’s frame stands taller, ***** While girls, all ages, reconnect. Anna Blake
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Mar 27, 2017
Mar 27, 2017 at 11:57 AM UTC
Camelot
*Once Upon a Time There was a little Wooden Spool of Yarn Covered in Layers of Coats Of Soft Protective Yarn Protecting its insides Everyone kept telling The special Ball of Yarn How pretty its layers were How its yarn was prettier than Any other color on the shelf And if it fell from the shelf Its pretty coats would protect it Except one day it fell from the shelf Hitting other shelves along the way And the rest of ***** of Yarn spectating Stared in disbelief Because the coats of the Pretty Ball of Yarn Weren't protecting the It like they had anticipated In fact It had begun unravelling Becoming Undone It unwound and unwound Across the concrete Floor Yarn stretched like Lines of a ruined and strewn apart coat Until all that was left of it Was a little wooden heart At the center The other Yarns of Wool Stared in disbelief How could this Yarn of Wool Survive without his coats of Yarn "He's broken" They said But slowly Over days His wooden heart began to grow So strong that he didn't need a coat He looked up and said "This whole time I was wrapped in Cotton Wool Layers of protection and defense I couldn't touch the rest of the world And now the excess is gone All that is left is my heart And it might be broken Because I Broke from the Fall But now I realize I didn't need The capes and coats and excess The wool wasn't me What is me, is what remains And now I can touch the rest of the universe Because "The heart that breaks open is the heart that  can contain the universe" (Melton) The world broke me open And it hurt But I don't want to go back To being sealed shut from the universe Even if it hurts at first Its worth breaking to rebuild So now I my heart is big enough To contain the universe"* ~JLH
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Mar 28, 2017
Mar 28, 2017 at 12:45 PM UTC
Breaking and Unravelling
*Once Upon a Time There was a little Wooden Spool of Yarn Covered in Layers of Coats Of Soft Protective Yarn Protecting its insides Everyone kept telling The special Ball of Yarn How pretty its layers were How its yarn was prettier than Any other color on the shelf And if it fell from the shelf Its pretty coats would protect it Except one day it fell from the shelf Hitting other shelves along the way And the rest of ***** of Yarn spectating Stared in disbelief Because the coats of the Pretty Ball of Yarn Weren't protecting the It like they had anticipated In fact It had begun unravelling Becoming Undone It unwound and unwound Across the concrete Floor Yarn stretched like Lines of a ruined and strewn apart coat Until all that was left of it Was a little wooden heart At the center The other Yarns of Wool Stared in disbelief How could this Yarn of Wool Survive without his coats of Yarn "He's broken" They said But slowly Over days His wooden heart began to grow So strong that he didn't need a coat He looked up and said "This whole time I was wrapped in Cotton Wool Layers of protection and defense I couldn't touch the rest of the world And now the excess is gone All that is left is my heart And it might be broken Because I Broke from the Fall But now I realize I didn't need The capes and coats and excess The wool wasn't me What is me, is what remains And now I can touch the rest of the universe Because "The heart that breaks open is the heart that  can contain the universe" (Melton) The world broke me open And it hurt But I don't want to go back To being sealed shut from the universe Even if it hurts at first Its worth breaking to rebuild So now I my heart is big enough To contain the universe"* ~JLH
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Harbour lights beckoning Like saintly haloed will-o-wisps Annointing ocean mists Jaded haunting memories Come surging down with tidal force And flood all other thoughts:     *"Weep not for me o' mistress,      Ever my first love was the sea      And I love her more than thee"* How oft' those words have plagued me, How many moons have traced the sky To fall from high Reborn to die And all in vain to answer why The sea could never save me? Weary sea-legs greet the dock, Where once they brought in stoic stance An end to fair romance Your eyes were filled with sadness, Beacons born of hope and kindness Blinded by my blindness:     *"Weep not for me o' mistress,      Ever my first love was the sea      And I love her more than thee"* Stumbling blind from shore to lea, From tavern, inn and hotel bar, I search afar Of ev'ry tar To ask of all oh where you are But nowhere can I find thee? A young man needs adventure, Yet all I learned from years at sea Was all I missed of thee Has time unwound the wounding Of hasty words once said with zest With pride and puffed-out chest:     *"Weep not for me o' mistress,      Ever my first love was the sea      And I love her more than thee"* With all hope driven from me, I watched a sailor paint a tale To taint me pale As he regailed Of maiden fair and love that failed And torment that befell thee Panic wove itself a wreath Around my heart and pulling tight It dragged me through the night From town to shore I stumbled And there upon the jagged rocks Espied your ebon locks:     *"Weep not for me o' mistress,      Ever my first love was the sea      And I love her more than thee"* The beauty wrought within thee, Noble grace and elegant flair My maiden fair Beyond compare With ***** and seaweed in your hair, What tragedy befell thee? Translucent as the water, You turn with sightless eyes to see And see but thought of me The sadness and betrayal Takes harbour in your haunting face Now anchored in this place:     *"Weep not for me o' mistress,      Ever my first love was the sea      And I love her more than thee"* Through years that passed unkindly, For all my sins of jealous pride The truth I hide From thee inside, My heart and soul with thee reside And I have always loved thee The sea I loved has taken The destined time we had to share And thee in thy despair Oh love my love forgive me, Upon the sea I held so dear To you alone I swear:      *Weep not for me o' mistress,      Ever my first love was the sea      But my heart belonged to thee*
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Feb 19, 2015
Feb 19, 2015 at 4:08 AM UTC
The Sea Mistress
Harbour lights beckoning Like saintly haloed will-o-wisps Annointing ocean mists Jaded haunting memories Come surging down with tidal force And flood all other thoughts:     *"Weep not for me o' mistress,      Ever my first love was the sea      And I love her more than thee"* How oft' those words have plagued me, How many moons have traced the sky To fall from high Reborn to die And all in vain to answer why The sea could never save me? Weary sea-legs greet the dock, Where once they brought in stoic stance An end to fair romance Your eyes were filled with sadness, Beacons born of hope and kindness Blinded by my blindness:     *"Weep not for me o' mistress,      Ever my first love was the sea      And I love her more than thee"* Stumbling blind from shore to lea, From tavern, inn and hotel bar, I search afar Of ev'ry tar To ask of all oh where you are But nowhere can I find thee? A young man needs adventure, Yet all I learned from years at sea Was all I missed of thee Has time unwound the wounding Of hasty words once said with zest With pride and puffed-out chest:     *"Weep not for me o' mistress,      Ever my first love was the sea      And I love her more than thee"* With all hope driven from me, I watched a sailor paint a tale To taint me pale As he regailed Of maiden fair and love that failed And torment that befell thee Panic wove itself a wreath Around my heart and pulling tight It dragged me through the night From town to shore I stumbled And there upon the jagged rocks Espied your ebon locks:     *"Weep not for me o' mistress,      Ever my first love was the sea      And I love her more than thee"* The beauty wrought within thee, Noble grace and elegant flair My maiden fair Beyond compare With ***** and seaweed in your hair, What tragedy befell thee? Translucent as the water, You turn with sightless eyes to see And see but thought of me The sadness and betrayal Takes harbour in your haunting face Now anchored in this place:     *"Weep not for me o' mistress,      Ever my first love was the sea      And I love her more than thee"* Through years that passed unkindly, For all my sins of jealous pride The truth I hide From thee inside, My heart and soul with thee reside And I have always loved thee The sea I loved has taken The destined time we had to share And thee in thy despair Oh love my love forgive me, Upon the sea I held so dear To you alone I swear:      *Weep not for me o' mistress,      Ever my first love was the sea      But my heart belonged to thee*
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Time is an illusion A mindless exclusion The best and the worst The last and the first The past was a risk Does the future exist? It travels one way All day Clockwise Then comes sunrise Time and space An endless race Seconds go by But why? Time will end Space will bend Perception unravels The mind, it travels The thought it takes Make no mistakes A theory until With adequate skill Proof is found The truth, unwound We now know How it shall go Always, forever Through every endeavor Time is present Space is pleasant A partner, a friend Joined till the end (Can it exist? The thought is dismissed)
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Jun 22, 2015
Jun 22, 2015 at 3:47 PM UTC
Time
The smell in the air, Iron, Rusty. Choppers buzzing. Neighbors stirred awkwardly standing amazed. Senseless anger unleashed robbing the day of it's peace. Red lights flashing, Screaming, announcing the horror. silently escaping life, reaching. The tape is unwound sealing us out. Innocence forgotten. A lost dog in the park looking for his friend stops. An empty pair of shoes. Anxious numbness is all that remains.
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Sep 26, 2012
Sep 26, 2012 at 2:55 PM UTC
Fireworks?
the moon was chasing the shadows of the forest, while the night scurried into the black fields, placing a small toe into a sorrowful grey cloud the wind hardly more than a whisper. and then midnight unwound, blue shadows on grass, the fields green as dark emeralds, the clouds dreaming of a soft moon, and the eye drawn skywards, filled with forgotten dreams the wind began to hurry birds crammed into a bucketful of sky like flapping pages hinged to a spine. welcome then to the stomach of night to moonflower and the bright light that spins uncovering the stones that lie in the dark moss revealing the surreal landscape to a broken moon. welcome then to our love, even more surreal, as we hold each other close, and shiver like strange plants wrapped into the black ink of the night as the world unfolds to kisses and wilderness.
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Jun 20, 2015
Jun 20, 2015 at 11:24 AM UTC
surreal landscape
stem of orchid jewels hearts white. fronds dangling caressed clouds obscure. Judas gifts wrap kitchen. bromeliad pool & bird chorus, cocteau twins, unwound clock. himalayan surveyor measures watercolour, telescopic insight ginger of blue flowerless season changing, renewed construction seeds bloom, a winter pose. house of possibilities in clear air, away from here barbeque covered, herbs sprout flavour zen stone feature a cat’s new bed
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Mar 24, 2015
Mar 24, 2015 at 8:13 AM UTC
Foreground
Forever, I touch the word, running my fingertips along the coffee table we saved up for. Forever, I whisper the word to the carpet where you used to pin me down. Forever, I feel it on my chin, I take it on the chin. Forever, we'll have sunshine, little breaks in the fog. Forever, if I can even find you then. Forever, the joke we said with wine-stained lips and ash in our mouths. Forever, we dreamed each other foreign and lived inside. Forever, the muse and never the poet, the pen and never the paper, the writer and never the reader. Forever, the way you talked down to me in t-shirts too large for your shoulder blades. Forever, I take it on the chin. Forever, the word, I feel it in my neck now. Forever, the affectation in my voice, do you hear it now? Forever, the seeker in the company of the sightless. Forever, the weaver. Forever, the weaver threading me into you. Forever, the weaver. Forever, the weaver winding me into you, unwinding me back into myself. Forever, the weaver, the girl on the dance floor, the tower of song, the siren, the sonnet, the beacon, the tower of song, the girl on the dance floor, the weaver, forever.
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Nov 17, 2016
Nov 17, 2016 at 1:33 AM UTC
A Weaver Unwound
In tandem we took the jump- Just you and me. We weren't falling-- we were flying We were free Parachutes deployed, and sailing were we -- somewhere towards the ground. But an unsound wind whirled around, and separated you from me. now alone and unwound but still sailing, you see. sailing, searching, hoping foolishly-- while you hurtle farther from me as not to be found losing focus. losing hope. and I can't see. but you came back - just to cut the cords of my chute so callously. now falling, not flying or sailing - not happy nor free plummeting down, down, down and you're nowhere to be found. alone and falling, no net to slow me down no trampoline, no rebound and you're nowhere to be found. would that you would catch me, but you make not a sound so you leave your mark a secret blemish -- nowhere to be found
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Sep 16, 2012
Sep 16, 2012 at 7:14 AM UTC
nowhere to be found
I feel you slipping away my love when the night is cold and still. When the years rush in and  stand  quietly by my bedroom door, quiet and mute with sorrowful eyes with shoulders drooped in resignation. I feel you slipping away my love as I sit here. As the reality glimmers through and shines upon this page, the silent rage  now unspoken for want of reason or assignment. Broken and wasted like a crystal vase with roses strewn across the floor. I feel you slipping away my love as I grasp feebly at the strings of the beautiful bouquet that  rises just beyond comprehension and wafts gently on the summer night to lite tattered and unwilling in far places unseen by our desires. Embers  softly glowing and now knowing the end has now begun. Years upon years of clawing at our fears that this was not to be. A blazing fire dowsed with strife and ire ,no air to stoke the flame. No time to play the game.  All work and no play makes Jill a dull girl. I cry quietly in the glow of poor reason. I feel you slipping away my love. I feel us slipping away now and forever. The shell does just as well to crumble. A castaway sits on the sandy shore knowing full well that rescue will find his molding husk frozen in time and empty  in the continuum. His  bones bleached past. The grinning mask of irony and  frozen regret. My love our reach exceeded  our grasp but youthful willfulness and hope was the rope. The rope that we clung to and weathered  the battering breezes as we closed our eyes to reason after all love will find a way ?.Even love was not enough, but we knew deep down. I feel you slipping now with eyes wide open. We watch  as the chasm widens and shrug our shoulders. Calloused hands tired of trying now. Weary eyes dry from crying now. willfully stuck and  denying now. I feel you pull away. I will wonder the desert parched with regret of this I have no doubt. But deep down I knew this. Hoping against hope. still. There will be no other to take your place. Who could?. We gave hope it's chance. Once we did dance. Life became duty. We fought off the wolves. We turned. We forgot. We grew apart while joined at the hip. How funny. How sad. Duty bound as love unwound. No us time. I feel you slipping, slipping. Goodbye. My. Love.
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Nov 13, 2012
Nov 13, 2012 at 8:45 AM UTC
In The Wee Hours
I feel you slipping away my love when the night is cold and still. When the years rush in and  stand  quietly by my bedroom door, quiet and mute with sorrowful eyes with shoulders drooped in resignation. I feel you slipping away my love as I sit here. As the reality glimmers through and shines upon this page, the silent rage  now unspoken for want of reason or assignment. Broken and wasted like a crystal vase with roses strewn across the floor. I feel you slipping away my love as I grasp feebly at the strings of the beautiful bouquet that  rises just beyond comprehension and wafts gently on the summer night to lite tattered and unwilling in far places unseen by our desires. Embers  softly glowing and now knowing the end has now begun. Years upon years of clawing at our fears that this was not to be. A blazing fire dowsed with strife and ire ,no air to stoke the flame. No time to play the game.  All work and no play makes Jill a dull girl. I cry quietly in the glow of poor reason. I feel you slipping away my love. I feel us slipping away now and forever. The shell does just as well to crumble. A castaway sits on the sandy shore knowing full well that rescue will find his molding husk frozen in time and empty  in the continuum. His  bones bleached past. The grinning mask of irony and  frozen regret. My love our reach exceeded  our grasp but youthful willfulness and hope was the rope. The rope that we clung to and weathered  the battering breezes as we closed our eyes to reason after all love will find a way ?.Even love was not enough, but we knew deep down. I feel you slipping now with eyes wide open. We watch  as the chasm widens and shrug our shoulders. Calloused hands tired of trying now. Weary eyes dry from crying now. willfully stuck and  denying now. I feel you pull away. I will wonder the desert parched with regret of this I have no doubt. But deep down I knew this. Hoping against hope. still. There will be no other to take your place. Who could?. We gave hope it's chance. Once we did dance. Life became duty. We fought off the wolves. We turned. We forgot. We grew apart while joined at the hip. How funny. How sad. Duty bound as love unwound. No us time. I feel you slipping, slipping. Goodbye. My. Love.
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Wishing to fly my kite again... The secret of it I gave up on... the ones we made in school of paper stuck in trees Only by the ocean could I send one to the sky Tail of yellow streaming if the wind was right Tethered to its spool My sky-dog on leash of string released, unwound my hope to send it all aloft with crescent moon and golden rocket on the blue-- diamond growing ever smaller into the light of day Until it stood above for hours on the gentling winds a miracle Lying in the sand below I dream about it tail curling in the currents on this coldest of days a miracle still
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Jan 30, 2019
Jan 30, 2019 at 12:07 PM UTC
Kite With Moon and Rocket
. 1 In the corner stands My blue guitar, Mirrors my grimace. 2 I have played you So like dream was the dear song Where you playing me? 3 Your body makes mine Shudder as I imagine A woman in my arms. 4 At the top of your body Are keys unwound at the ready, Silver spirals of tunings. 5 My soul is near hollow But the blue guitar Is filling in the foundations. 6 What makes the blue guitar So shining in the mundane, All the world is makeshift. 7 My fingers wet with you, What water sounds like, As it kisses the earth. 8 Deep in the strings I summon my being, Always blue as sheer sky. 9 Blue guitar, silent, singing, My fingers ***** your neck, Never do you scream. 10 Once I heard music, The sweetest tabulations Of sorrows in rosewood. 11 My fingers ache on steel, These are your moved guts, Strings that I borrow. 12 At an open window, All the day obtuse, I hear birds in your vibrations, Untouched air of blue guitar. 13 I do not know anything, Music is lathed on an open fret, The heart is beating to a note of bliss, Hole set in the body braced by wood, Time cuts as it is sectioned, a staff fires, All the chords are listed in primes, Is the ear a window or is the eye, Blind in the choral songs we make, All things are ephemeral, wonderings, Variations we work as structure fades, As the blue guitar is touched, turning light.
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Feb 8, 2016
Feb 8, 2016 at 11:22 AM UTC
Thirteen Thoughts on the Blue Guitar